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Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by custos »

tehlike wrote: post #369
custos wrote: post #220

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I can assure you it is not. It's about $0.001 per solved captcha with 97% accuracy rate and refunds on failed ones, from the service provider I know of. I've even written one, it's not complicated and not expensive.

It is still the same rate. 2.2 ish for new recaptcha, too.

Yeah I was able to beat that "Robot check" checkbox by Google using some fuzzy bezier curves and random mouse movements/scrolling to simulate a real user's behavior.

Unfortunately Google has some other metrics to detect bots (such as no cookies showing they've seen you before, etc), so it wasn't 100% reliable.

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by mustacheemperor »

tomc1985 wrote: post #449
mustacheemperor wrote: post #417

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GIMP does not even have a circle tool, and I don't think working around pointless limitations like that counts as "learning the interface." The commenter above you used the software for 15+ years and specifically cited that lack of feature parity is the only criticism keeping them on CC. I have used both as well and do not follow your opinion about Photoshop, maybe because I never used those old school design tools.…

I like how you use more words to explaining (what you think) I think than I spent writing the original opinions. I don't have strong criticisms against either... Photoshop did take a while to learn -- I remember struggling to complete tasks when I first started with it because my frame of reference was Paint Shop Pro -- and GIMP also takes a while to learn. Why do you feel so strongly against 'learning the interface'…

Because, again, learning the interface does not replace what the software cannot do. People who have both learned gimp and who need photoshop for their jobs are tired of hearing these lecture points.

I write a lot because I want to clearly explain my points on the Internet where there's no verbal nuance. Sorry if it was too much. Are you really criticizing me for thorough explanation on a discussion forum?

Edit: I should probably qualify that in the capacity I use photoshop it's kind of a moot point anyway, since I depend on illustrator just as much and the convenience of smart objects and the interoperability with stuff like libraries are more than worth the price of admission for me.

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by juliangoldsmith »

fao_ wrote: post #441
devoply wrote: post #428

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For everyone. Who is profit not good for? Someone has chosen to pay the company for the good, that's their decision to do so. The company has provided the good. The consumer is better off because of it. And he or she has paid for the good. So yeah it's good for everyone.

> Who is profit not good for? The wage slaves.

Why?

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by cookiecaper »

fao_ wrote: post #441
devoply wrote: post #428

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For everyone. Who is profit not good for? Someone has chosen to pay the company for the good, that's their decision to do so. The company has provided the good. The consumer is better off because of it. And he or she has paid for the good. So yeah it's good for everyone.

> Who is profit not good for? The wage slaves.

Profit is good for wage slaves. People may not agree that the wage slaves get their due share of that profit, but without profit, the wage slaves would be in a sorry state indeed. Their employer needs to be prosperous so they can be comfortable accommodating the employee's needs.

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by grogenaut »

rhaps0dy wrote: post #259
blunte wrote: post #193

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Call it Pimp. I would say that I'm in too, but I also need a quality Illustrator alternative that works well on Mac.

To cacarr: Inkscape is not at its best in Mac. It's clunky because you have to use control instead of command, can't zoom with the trackpad, can't go fullscreen. I use it and love it and it's one of my favourite programs, but really it's better in Linux.

A key mapping function sounds like one of them more easy things to add into a piece of software

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by tehlike »

custos wrote: post #461
tehlike wrote: post #369

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It is still the same rate. 2.2 ish for new recaptcha, too.

Yeah I was able to beat that "Robot check" checkbox by Google using some fuzzy bezier curves and random mouse movements/scrolling to simulate a real user's behavior. Unfortunately Google has some other metrics to detect bots (such as no cookies showing they've seen you before, etc), so it wasn't 100% reliable.

you don't need 100% reliability, that's the good side :)

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by pdm55 »

brady747 wrote: post #373
bqe wrote: post #177

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This reminds me of the joke about the economist who refuses to pick up the $20 bill on the ground because surely someone else would have already picked it up.

Sounds like the Alinsky bit in "Rules for Radicals" about working inside and outside of people's experiences: "....In a similar situation in Los Angeles four staff members and I were talking in front of the Biltmore Hotel when I demonstrated the same point, saying: "Look, I am holding a ten-dollar bill in my hand. I propose to walk around the Biltmore Hotel, a total of four blocks, and try to give it away. This will…

I lived off handouts for a year while I writing up my research results. Finished it and got a job through a friend. When I got my first paycheck, I went to an ATM and took out a $100. I was so disorientated about actually having some money in the bank that, when I removed my bank card, I left my money behind. I walked about 15 meters before I realised what I had done. I naively returned to the bank and went inside to explain what had happened. (I mean did I really expect the teller to believe me or be able to do anything about it?) There were two young guys at the bank's information desk handing in the money. I said "That's mine", took it and walked away. I wanted to give them a reward, but thought their good deed would have to be its own reward.

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by manquer »

pkamb wrote: post #446
s73ver wrote: post #365

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The thing is, the motivation is different when it's fake internet points than when it's actual money. The relationship between the people is different, too. The way it works now, the relationship is a cordial, friendly, familiar relationship (even though the people don't actually know each other in many cases). Throw money into the deal, even the paltry $10, and now it becomes a business relationship, with all that e…

Maybe. I think if a site like GitHub or Stack Overflow added bounties they'd do it in a way that kept the spectrum more on the relationship side, rather than the employee/employer. And the bounty is an extra perk.

Stackoverflow does have a bounty system . you can only pay with your fake points though , allowing ppl to pay with real cash is ripe for abuse.Their points economy is very carefully built, just like any successful in game economy, hyperinflation is major problem is a problem all of them have to worry about.

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by manquer »

bertjk wrote: post #195
dsacco wrote: post #188

I wish these weren't all subscription-based, because this could work for the exact thing I want: I will pay $100 - $500 for an Arq Backup[1] clone on Linux, with the same UI polish as Arq for macOS or Windows, optional encryption, deduplication and supporting all the same backup locations, including: * AWS S3/Glacier * GCP Nearline/Coldline * Backblaze B2 * Dropbox * SFTP * NAS * Google Drive If you're absolutely goi…

Do you really need it to support all of these different backends? I bet this would more likely come to exist if the authors knew they could focus on a subset of these.

As a developer if I knew you would need to support a ton of backends i will spend significant time building a abstraction layer which is backends agnostic and a framework to add backends easily. It would then be much easier to add new ones, even if I don't want to support them immediately

Alternatively i would add support for one or two services directly, rewrite many times and come to the above model and add support slowly.

Knowing you would need all of the backends would help immensely in the initial design

Re: Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project

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Post by manquer »

rkeene2 wrote: post #291
hackerews wrote: post #286

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Try this https://www.demandrush.com/alerts

This wants to send me email, which I then have to aggregate myself whenever I want to look at that type of information. An RSS feed would be much more beneficial since I could subscribe to it, let the aggregator take care of it and when I want to look at that type of data I'll see a global view of those feeds over time.

Not a exactly a solution... you can use iftt or zapier kind of services to easily convert the email to rss
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